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Department botanists confirmed that a population of small whorled pogonia has been documented on Winooski Valley Park District conservation land in Chittenden County.

Two rare orchid species, rose pogonia and grass pink, were rescued from a bog in Ocean County, N.J., that was about to be covered over by a road-widening project.

And so did calopogon, pogonia, spiranthes, and many other fine plant people that lived in our meadow.

Any powdery pollen she brought on her back from another pogonia must now be brushed off against the sticky stigma.

The small whorled pogonia is a globally rare orchid historically found across the eastern states and Ontario.